ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has launched an advertisement campaign to persuade all the stakeholders, who are protesting against imposition of 0.3 percent withholding tax on banking transactions.
Talking to Customs Today, FBR Facilitation and Taxpayers Education (FATE) Member Nadeem Dar said that the campaign, which included advertisement and other public awareness gadgets, did not mean to annoy anyone. He said that FBR has also published thousands of brochures for awareness of the public visiting the FBR offices.
Recently, the FBR private advertisement client had distributed around 1,000 brochures in Blue area of Islamabad thorough hawkers and as many as 500 brochures were distributed among the FBR officers and staffers for awareness.
The brochures carried information regarding newly imposed 0.3 percent withholding tax which was being opposed by the trader community across the country.
